The GIF is 25 years old now, and the internet is using one of the oldest images formants in a number of interesting ways. It has recently found its feet becoming a major player in the content marketing arsenal. The above 6 minute long, video charts the GIF history and explores its creativity on platforms such as...
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Add your blogging events to the Bloggers Required blogging events calendar

As you might be aware Bloggers Required is part of the Populate Digital family. Today we have some news to share. We are pleased to announce the launch of our new blogging events calendar. This is a place for you to check out local and national blogging events and meet-ups. We need...
IKEA “Delivery not included.”

We love this creative PR stunt by IKEA Australia. This coupon was placed an an Australian news paper, giving the reader a chance to redeem it for a free crib for babies born on November 14, exactly nine months from Valentine’s day. The coupon also quotes: “Delivery not included.”
Travel to Oz with the Chrome Experiment
The Google Chrome experiment have teamed up with the upcoming Disney movie OZ, The Great And Powerful, and created an interactive circus scene for you to explore called ‘Find Your Way To Oz‘. The Chrome experiment are all about pushing the boundaries of the Chrome web browser, and to show people it’s potential focusing heavily on its...
64 ways of getting off the ground with Google+

Google+ is the future of Google and marketers are slowly coming around to this. Google sees it as its core product that everything else Google wise will stem from. If you are a contribute to a blog or journalist it is particularly important to have a presence here. If you are, looking utilise Google + a little more Maria Peagler has put together the below infographic:...
Social media and the law (Infographic)

The team at immediatefuture.co.uk have issued a rather interesting benchmark study on social media and the law. From the survey: Over 50% of companies don’t consider social media legal risks to be an issue or a priority. 61% are not confident that sensitive information is protected on social media. And recent crisis...
25 Expert predictions for cross channel marketing in 2013

Do you agree or disagree with these expert 2013 cross channel marketing predications, and what other predictions would you add? Please add your future marketing predictions in the comments section of this blog. This infographic is brought to you by ExactTarget, a leader in social media marketing.
Join Wendy McAuliffe for a Free webinar ‘5 key technologies that will hugely improve customer experience’

On Thursday Feb 28 2013, 11 AM (UK) join Populate Digital’s Wendy McAuliffe (@wendymcauliffe) who will be joined by Debbie Williams, Principal Consultant, Smart B2B Marketing, for a live webinar; Improve the customer experience with 5 technologies. Today, the digitally empowered buyer has high expectations and can be unforgiving if those expectations are not...
Visualisation: Tweets in real time

Tweetping is a neat real time Twitter experience designed by Franck Ernewein. It is basically a world map that shows where everyone in the whole world is tweeting from in real time, right before your very eyes. The map gives you an idea of the scale of tweets sent and just how popular Twitter is....
Google Please Hire Me
Matthew Epstein would like to work for Google. The above video is his way of getting on Google’s radar. Alongside the video, he has created a website that host’s the video, resume, and a contact form. Unfortunately, he did not succeed in his quest, but he did get a job at start-up company called SigFig.